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with, will be the most certain check upon our own 

 conduct; and we ought always to consult our con- 

 science about the rectitude of our behaviour: for 

 this we may be assured of, that we are acting 

 wrong, whenever we are doing any thing to 

 another, which we should think unjust, if it were 

 done to us. Let those, therefore, who intend to act 

 justly, but take this view of things, and all will be 

 well. There will be no danger of their oppressing 

 others, or fear of their falling into error or danger 

 themselves. Nothing but an habitual inadvertency 

 as to this particular, can be the occasion of so 

 many ingenuous noble spirits being so often en- 

 gaged in courses opposite to virtue and honour. 



